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Clive Rice

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Clive Edward Butler Rice

Born: 23 July 1949, Johannesburg, Transvaal
Major Teams: Transvaal, Nottinghamshire, Natal, Scotland, South Africa.
Known As: Clive Rice
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium


ODI Debut: South Africa v India at Calcutta, 1st ODI, 1991/92
Last ODI:
South Africa v India at New Delhi, 3rd ODI, 1991/92

Grandson of P.S.S.Bower (Oxford University).

Career Statistics:

TESTS
 (career)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct St
Batting               0    -   -     -    -     -     -   -    -  -

                     Balls    M     R   W    Ave  Best   5 10    SR  Econ
Bowling                  0    -     -   -    -     -     -  -    -    -

ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS
 (career)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave     SR 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding    3    2   0    26   14   13.00  70.27   0   0    0   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling              23      0   114    2  57.00  1-46    0   0  69.0  4.95

FIRST-CLASS
 (career: 1969/70 - 1993/94)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  482  766 123 26331  246   40.95  48 137  401   0

                    Balls     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling             48628 20922  930  22.49  7-62   23   1  52.2  2.58

LIST A LIMITED OVERS
 (career: 1970/71 - 1993/94)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  479  444  83 13474  169   37.32  11  79  174   0

                    Balls     R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling             17738 11705  517  22.64  6-18   19   6  34.3  3.95

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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If Clive Rice's timing served him well through a first-class career that embraced four decades, it let him down badly in international terms. Rice made his first-class debut in 1969, a year before South Africa's last Test series prior to isolation. Although he captained his country on their three-ODI comeback tour of India in 1991, just months later he was deemed, at 42, to be too old to take South Africa to the 1992 World Cup.

A record containing just three one-day internationals suggests a moderate cricketer, but Rice was far from that. Through the 1970s and 80s, for Transvaal and Nottinghamshire, he was one of the game's leading all-rounders - a punishing right-handed batsman with one of the most savage cuts in cricket, a seamer capable of genuine pace through the 1970s and a captain as hard-headed as any in the business. He attracted the attention of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket - in itself recognition of his abilities - and was an automatic choice for the South African teams against the rebel tourists of the 1980s. He was also the epitome of the modern professional cricketer, quick to recognise the financial opportunities that began to arise in the game.

Rice was at the centre of one of South African cricket's silliest controversies when he posed naked except for a strategically-placed (and pointedly-named) "Jumbo" bat. It was also almost impossible to come across a photograph of him in his heyday without an "Avis" cap covering a receding hairline. Rice was the driving force behind the Transvaal "Mean Machine" in the 1970s and 80s, similarly urging Nottinghamshire to success during the same period. Sadly, he was discarded by both South Africa and Transvaal at the end of his career, eventually moving to Natal where, with Malcolm Marshall, he helped shape the formidable talents of Shaun Pollock, Lance Klusener and Jonty Rhodes. (Copyright CricInfo 2001)

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